Over the last few years, talk in the raw vegan community has swung away from a science-based understanding of caloric requirements toward a model which insists that even small, sedentary people should be eating an amount of calories which can potentially cause weight gain.

The matter is made even more confusing because some people can be quite thin while eating many more calories than they seem to require using basal metabolic rate estimates, while others quickly start putting on weight.

I know from experimentation that my own caloric requirements are several hundred calories lower than BMR calculators like cronometer.com suggest, and I can gain fat by eating more calories than my body requires.

So when someone tells you that you need to be eating at least 3,000 calories a day when you’re 5’1, and sedentary, should you listen?

In this video I discuss some of the factors that can influence how many calories you require.

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